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Nov 2, 2023 · In 2018, Julie Bishop, Australia’s foreign minister, introduced a draft resolution at the U.N. General Assembly titled “The Role of Diamonds in Fueling Conflict.” Bishop noted that those involved in trading diamonds should “seek a diamond market free from human rights abuses and forced labor.”
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May 26, 2020 · Following recommendations from this report, UN General Assembly Resolution 55/56 established the Kimberley Process (KP) in 2003 to prevent blood diamonds from entering the mainstream rough diamond market. Furthermore, this resolution aims to reassure consumers that the diamonds they buy are conflict-free, and nations who agree to participate in ...
Mar 10, 2022 · The March 2022 issue of the Rapaport Magazine, one of the primary sources of information and analysis for the diamond and jewelry trade, addresses the issue of what the industry can do to stop the ongoing problem of blood diamonds in the supply chain.
May 10, 2023 · The new ‘blood diamonds’: the elaborate plan to halt Russia’s trade. G7 nations are working on an inspections regime to target the country’s gemstones, but risk destabilising the global...
Apr 25, 2021 · Blood diamonds can be described in the simplest terms as rough diamonds sold to finance conflict, including civil wars and violent insurgency.
Blood Diamonds are still a reality. Conflict or blood diamonds fuel conflict, civil wars and human rights abuses. They have been responsible for funding recent conflicts in Africa which resulted in the death and displacement of millions of people.
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Dec 8, 2023 · Nearly two years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the G7 has reached an agreement to keep Russian 'blood' diamonds out of the European Union and the United States from next year for the foreseeable.